We join with you in this prayer and thank God for your heart to see His Word honored and His glory made known, and to see repentance and restoration come to your still current wife and to all those who have heard the Word, including your family and generations to come.
We are encouraged by your understanding that it is the kindness of God that leads to repentance, as it is written in Rom 2:4 that the goodness of God leads you to repentance, and that our part is to plant and water but God gives the increase. As you quoted, we planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase, so then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase, 1 Cor 3:6-7. And we agree that not to us but to Your name give glory, Ps 115:1, for salvation belongs to our God, Rev 7:10. We cling to the promise that so is your Word that goes out of your mouth, it will not return to you void, but it will accomplish that which you please, and it will prosper in the thing you sent it to do, Isa 55:11. The seed is the Word of God, Mark 4:14, and we trust that what has been sown in hearts, even over many months, is not forgotten by the Lord who is always working.
We lift up your marriage before the Lord. We believe with you in the sanctity of marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman before God, and we strongly affirm God's design that what God has joined together, let no man separate, Mark 10:9, and that marriage is to be honored by all, Heb 13:4. We pray for your wife, that the Lord would continue the good work He has begun in her and perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ, Phil 1:6. We pray that the Holy Spirit would convict her and all who have heard concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment, John 16:8, and that the living and active Word would continue to pierce and judge the thoughts and intents of the heart, Heb 4:12. We pray that before honor comes humility, Prov 18:12, and that God in His mercy would humble those who need humbling so that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, 2 Tim 2:26, as the prodigal came to himself, Luke 15:17, and as You hedged in Hosea's wife that she might return, Hos 2:6-7.
We also pray that the Lord would order steps and bring faithful laborers across her path and the paths of all who have heard to water the seed with truth and with the kindness that leads to repentance, for the Lord is not slow concerning his promise, but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9, who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4. As You directed Philip to the Ethiopian official reading Isaiah, Acts 8:26-31, and Ananias to Saul, Acts 9:10-11, and Paul through the vision of the Macedonian man, Acts 16:9-10, we trust that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, Ps 37:23, and that You are able to divinely appoint encounters for Your purposes, for of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, Rom 11:36.
We thank You, Father, that You are the One who keeps us from evil, and we pray Your protection over you, your wife, your progeny and posterity, your patriarchal and matriarchal figures, and all fellow servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1 Cor 4:1, that You would deliver us all from evil, deception, and temptation, and from the evil one, and that all would receive the love of the truth that they may be saved, 2 Thess 2:10. We are grateful that You are at work even now, as Jesus said My Father is still working, so I am working also, John 5:17.
We join our faith with yours, believing that whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them, Mark 11:24, and that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You, Heb 11:6, and that the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective, James 5:16. We ask You to show us great and mighty things which we do not know, Jer 33:3, for You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, Eph 3:20.
Father, we pray in the name of Jesus, for whatever you will ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son, John 14:13, and we thank You that in Christ all the promises of God are Yes and Amen to the glory of God, 2 Cor 1:20. We ask that You be glorified in the restoration and healing of this marriage if it be Your will, that repentance would bear fruit, that truth would prevail, and that Your Word would accomplish all You have sent it to do. We continue to stand with you, trusting You to do what only You can do, and we thank You in advance for Your faithfulness.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in prayer and in walking in purity, love, and truth before the Lord and before your wife, continuing to sow in faith and entrust the increase to God, knowing that He who is faithful will complete what He has begun.